Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research

By Nia Choi, Satyajit Majumdar. 2014

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Effect of Experiential Social Entrepreneurship Education on Intention Formation in Students (2018, background): “Social entrepreneurship as a topic of interest in business schools is a rather recent phenomenon (Bacq, Hartog, and Hoogendoorn 2013; Choi and Majumdar, 2014; Dufays and Huybrechts, 2014; Hjorth and Holt, 2016; Short, Moss, and Lumpkin 2009).”
Sustainable business models as boundary-spanning systems of value transfers (2018, background): “Social sustainability in organizations has received less attention and research lacks a unified definition of what a social organization is (Choi and Majumdar, 2014).”
Social Entrepreneurship in Non-munificent Institutional Environments and Implications for Institutional Work: Insights from China (2017, neutral): “So far, research on social entrepreneurship has mostly employed single case studies (Choi and Majumdar 2014; Dey and Steyaert 2010; Mair and Martı́ 2006; Short et al. 2009) with a few exceptions (see Desa 2012; Kistruck et al. 2013; Urbano et al. 2010).”
The Prevalence and Determinants of Social Entrepreneurship at the Macro Level (2016, methodology): “In the context of the present cross-cultural study we apply a definition, which captures three of the defining properties as described by Choi and Majumdar (2014), that is, social value creation, social entrepreneur and social enterprise organization.”
Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “Perhaps reflecting the essentially contested nature of the concept and the relative youth of social entrepre-neurship as an academic field (Choi & Majumdar, 2014; Lehner & Kansikas, 2013), empirical studies tend to take a more inclusive approach.”
Social support timing and persistence in nascent entrepreneurship: exploring when instrumental and emotional support is most effective (2017, background): “Would service industries, for example, operate in a similar manner to manufacturing? Would social enterprises require the same inputs as for-profit firms (Choi and Majumdar 2014)? Other factors of interest include variations by culture, as well as the interactions of gender, cultural capital, and pr”
Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship (2018, positive): “Described as the underlying logic of SE (Choi and Majumdar 2014), social value creation is one of the most broadly discussed in the literature on SE (Austin et al. 2006; Dacin et al. 2011; Kraus et al. 2014; Mair and Marti 2006).”
Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, background): “…of SE (Phillips, Lee, Ghobadian, O’Regan, & James, 2015; Dufays & Huybrechts, 2014; Kraus, Filser, O’Dwyer, & Shaw, 2014; Lee et al., 2014) or provide a broad overview of the SE research as an academic topic of research (Choi & Majumdar, 2014; Hota et al., 2019; Sassmannshausen & Volkmann, 2018.).”
Circular economy as an essentially contested concept (2018, background): “The lack of clarity surrounding a concept has been argued to be of importance (Gallie, 1956; see also, e.g. Choi and Majumdar, 2014).”
Social innovation in emerging economies: A National Systems of Innovation based approach (2017, background): “Choi & Majumdar (2014), for instance, noted that social value creation, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship organizations, market orientation and social innovation are the five key elements of social entrepreneurship.”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, neutral): “…& Mort, 2006), and it is not surprising that SE scholarship has been characterized by substantial debate concerning the definitional (e.g., Choi & Majumdar, 2014; Dacin, Dacin, & Tracey, 2011), theoretical (e.g., Agafonow, 2014; Santos, 2012), and methodological challenges of the field (e.g.,…”